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Tudor Davies
Tudor is a techie turned manager who fights like mad to keep his tech skills honed and relevant. Everything from web hosting, networking, *nix and the like. Constantly developing and co-ordinating with others to make the web a better (and easier to use) place.
Monday, 13th Sep 2010
Posted @ 14:16
Am currently investigating setting up as a whitelabelled broadband ISP and all that it involves. Mainly it means having an LNS, RADIUS servers and BGP routers.
Normally, I would buy some Cisco gear and hey presto its all done. But the drawback is - price! The level of kit needed to run that kind of setup is quite high and the price is astronomical. We cant afford to do it that way, so we are looking at ways of doing it well but cheapyly and as we expand, upgrade with bigger and better solutions.
Right now, the idea is this:
2x VMWare ESXi boxes each running:
1x Linux VM doing RADIUS
1x Linux VM doing l2tpd (as LNS)
1x Linux/FreeBSD VM doing Quagga (BGP routing)
The first 2 VMs (RADIUS and L2TP) will run VRRP between them, each VM pair will appear as 1 machine. This doesnt give load balancing but does give high availability which is far more important.
The third VM will operate as BGP routers in their own right but using keepalived, will appear as a single IP for both inbound and outbound traffic.
The cost of a couple of decent spec servers and ESXi? Much less than buying 4 Cisco boxes and 2 servers for RADIUS to do the same job...
In other news, I won an auction for some studio gear. I already have 3 small rack mount PCs and now have some outboard effect units (at a bargain price):
Behringer Composer MDX2100
Behringer Ultrafex EX3000
Behringer Denoiser SNR202
The only thing I need now is a Behringer Ultravoice and a minidisc player and I have everything a DJ, Club, Pub or Mobile Studio would ever need! And a laser :)
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